Jean-Pierre Gauthier (Matane 1965, Qc, Ca) lives and works in Montréal. His sound and kinetic installations has been seen in notorious art museums and galleries across Canada. He recently had is first solo survey exhibitions at the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Canada. at the Art Gallery of Alberta, Canada (2006); at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York (2003-2005); at the Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee (2003), USA; at the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal (2002); and in many others galleries in Canada. He was also part of numerous group exhibitions in Sweden (Electrohype 06), Germany (Berlin Transmediale 06), Norway, United States, Spain, Italy, France and Canada since 1990. He also performed live as an experimental music performer in solo and in collaboration with professional musicians from Italy and Montreal new music and experimental music scene since 1998. Since 2000 he has been teaching part time at Université du Québec à Montréal in visual art and as giving workshop on sound art. Awarded the prestigious Sobey Art award (2004) for his contribution to Canadian contemporary art and the Lynch-Staunton award (2005).